If you have left school and entered society for a few years, then whether you are a naturally rich second generation or a young loser who needs to struggle in various ways, you may agree with this sentence: life is actually a variety of things. bureau. And the dinner party is the most lively one among them.

Chinese people have very complicated feelings about eating. Qian Zhongshu once said that eating is sometimes like getting married. The most important thing in name is often an accessory. Of course we should understand dialectically, that is to say, not all meals are "more than just eating" - indeed, some are really aimed at filling our stomachs and enjoying the food - but more often than not, we still regard eating or attending a banquet as a Treat with activities.

Friends who haven’t seen each other for a long time, let’s have a meal; thank you for helping me, let’s have a meal; 10-year classmates’ reunion, let’s have a meal; marriageable men and women meet for the first time, let’s have a meal; If you need to finish talking about a certain order, let's have a meal...

Some dinner parties are very secular and fireworks. Either there is something to be settled at the wine table, or everyone wants to express their own sense of existence. . This kind of meal requires both the digestive system and the brain to work hard, which may make you sweat.

Cheng Yumeng, the heroine written by Bao Jingjing in "Travel Notes, or Guides", became a food columnist. She chose a high-end restaurant for her high school reunion dinner and showed off all her tortellini. After eating the calories of carne, pasta and dry sausage, and earning a lot of sweaty admiration, he waved his hand to hail a Buick, "Hey, the magazine provided it, it's really troublesome!" Then he rode into the world in the eyes of everyone's admiration. left, leaving a group of Shanxi fellows who had not bitten the pasta to meet at a hot pot restaurant to renew the stall...

This approach is too cool - if the writer did not say to the driver "500 an hour" after getting in the car, Right? I'll rent it here, you can find a subway station and let me go." The joke is ironic because each of us is familiar with this kind of dinner. It can be as big as a Buick car, or as small as dressing up for a dinner or buying a box of high-end cigarettes and taking them out accidentally, or toasting one, two, three, four in order during the dinner, these all need to be planned in advance, and eating is obviously a priority. Reached the last position.

So eating is just the starting point, gathering is the purpose, and how to interact after getting together is the truth. The class reunion is a PK of circumstances; the customer bureau is a liaison to sign a relationship; a blind date dinner is a test of each other; when having a meal with the mother-in-law, you have to make bold assumptions and be careful to verify them.

Of course, there are also some dinner parties that can reflect the true love in the world, such as an appointment at a roadside kebab stall. Everyone drank a few glasses of beer, the evening breeze was blowing, and the moonlight was bright. It made people want to tear off the stereotyped masks of the day and talk to each other, just like the Japanese people always like to drink in an izakaya after get off work until they burst into tears. . Although eating here is not the main character, without the catalytic effect of the hazy and gentle smoke of the skewers and the beer, and without a bunch of people crowded together, it would not be so easy to break the knot.

No matter what, dinner parties happen every day, sometimes for work, sometimes because of loneliness. We act out, escape, and talk at dinner parties, making this recurring activity of replenishing protein and carbohydrates colorful. Sometimes gossip circulates between these meals, and many times we finish everything in one meal. We didn’t stay, but we still rushed to the next game.